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So Cindy and I are shopping at the local big box store, and a product display catches my eye — mostly because of the stacks of small metal cans, labeled with a label featuring a honeybee and a rattlesnake. I look. The product is a supposed healing balm. The ingredients...Read more

The next two days will be almost entirely family blogging rather than the usual geoblogging. Don’t hesite to skip ahead if that’s not to your taste. We are up and eat breakfast. Mom has a caregiver service that send someone over every morning and night to assist with meals and...Read more

We’ve had an unusually cool and wet March, so I’m putting off the 30th Annual Kent Is No Longer 29 Adventure until April 9 or 10. I haven’t settled on exactly what the adventure will be, in part because I want to see how much it dries out over the...Read more

Tomorrow, G-d willing, I’ll be receiving my first shot of the Moderna vaccine. By my birthday, on March 31st, I’ll be about as immune to coronavirus as modern science can make me — which is apparently pretty darn immune. So I am tentatively starting to look to the future again....Read more

The temperature last night hit -6 Fahrenheit. Subzero temperatures are not extraordinary here, but we don’t see them every winter. And when I got up this morning, this impressed me: No icicles on the eaves. Because it’s too frikkin’ cold for them to form. Our high was 26 Fahrenheit. I...Read more

Every now and then I run into a scientific review paper that is exceptionally good. Review papers are unusually important and are unusually comprehensive and well-written, for scientific papers. They are, nonetheless, not light reading. But if you are willing to plunge in and get the gritty scientific details, here...Read more